STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT MBA-STRAT-502

PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY

St. Josephs College

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Twinning Programme First Year II Semester

STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Assignment Questions

Unit-1

1. Why is it important that strategy implementation and strategy formulation be integrated carefully?


2. What is the meaning of the following statement? In organizations, there is a consistent path of structure following strategy and then strategy following


3. Explain the different types of organizational structures and state their merits and


4. Why do you think divisional organization is necessary for strategic management?


5. Explain the relevance of matrix structures for corporate strategies


6. What type of organizational structure is used to implement the cost leadership, and differentiation?


7. What organizational structures should be used to implement the multi domestic, global, and transnational international strategies?


8. Explain the decision making hierarchy in an


9. What is Strategic business unit and what type of leadership is required?


10. Explain the significance of functional

Unit-2

1. Explain the concept of competition with suitable


2. Identify the competitive situations from marketing point of


3. Explain the role of marketer in perfect and monopoly situations


4. Examine the role of marketer in oligopoly and monopolistic


5. With example, explain how marketer identifies competition taking buyer point of


6. How do you analyze competition situation using porter model?


7. Using Mckinsey framework analyze competition


8. What are merits of Key success factor method?


9. Identify and explain generic


10. Discuss military strategies used by

Unit-3

1. Outline the various functional strategies and examine their significance in the process of strategic management.


2. Review the major R & D strategies of firms with


3. What are the concerns of operations plans and policies?


4. Examine the impact of corporate strategies on the operational management of a


5. Why do you think production / operations managers often are not directly involved in strategy - formulation activities? Why can this be a major organization weakness?


6. How can you coordinate operations and R&S strategies?


7. What is the significance of information systems strategy?


8. How can logistics strategy help a firm achieve its goals?


9. Explain the types of


10. Explain BCG

Unit-4

1. What is marketing strategy? How will u design a promotional strategy for a company?


2. What is push-pull strategy in sales promotion?


3. What is financial strategy and what is its necessity?


4. What do you mean by information system strategy?


5. Explain Physical distribution and logistics


6. Describe Supply chain and value chain


7. What is Integrated logistics system


8. Explain (i)Postponement strategy, (ii). Logistics speculation


9. Explain 3-stage model of IS planning


10. Strategy set transformation

Unit-5

1. What is strategy implementation? Explain its


2. Explain the process of strategy


3. What is strategy evaluation and control?


4. How do you classify strategy controls? Distinguish


5. What are the strategy control techniques? Explain any three of


6. What are the operational control techniques? Explain any three of


7. Describe (i) Benchmarking (ii) Balanced score card (iii) MBO


8. Explain how performance indicators can beset for different functional areas


9. What are the benefits of strategy control measures?


10. Identify the use of qualitative standards in strategy

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